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Mahsa M Yazdy, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology - Boston University School of Public Health

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mahsa@bu.edu
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Biography

Mahsa Yazdy, PhD, MPH is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the Division for Surveillance, Research, and Promotion of Perinatal Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, which houses the Massachusetts Birth Defects Monitoring Program and the Massachusetts Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention. Dr. Yazdy has over 18 years of experience in perinatal epidemiology, with a focus on congenital anomalies. She has served as Executive Committee member, President, Board Vice-Chair, Chair of the Operations Committee of the National Birth Defects Prevention Network; she also serves on Committees and Workgroups of the Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention and the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Dr. Yazdy received her MPH in Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and received a PhD in Epidemiology from the Boston University School of Public Health.

Education

  • Boston University School of Public Health, PhD Field of Study: Epidemiology
  • Boston University School of Public Health, PhD Field of Study: Epidemiology
  • Emory University, MPH Field of Study: Epidemiology
  • Emory University, BS Field of Study: Computer Science

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Publications

  • Published on 1/22/2025

    Schraw JM, Tark JY, Desrosiers TA, Chambers TM, Shumate CJ, Nembhard WN, Yazdy MM, Nestoridi E, Malone MFW, Laetsch TW, Widemann BC, Janitz AE, Tanner JP, Kirby RS, Salemi JL, Spector LG, Huff CD, Plon SE, Lupo PJ. Risk of carcinomas among children and adolescents with birth defects. Cancer Epidemiol. 2025 Apr; 95:102748. PMID: 39848200.

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  • Published on 12/16/2024

    Adrien N, MacLehose RF, Werler MM, Yazdy MM, Fox MP, Parker SE. Assessing the Impact of Exposure Misclassification in Case-Control Studies of Self-Reported Medication Use. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2024 Dec 16. PMID: 39679807.

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  • Published on 9/1/2024

    Michalski AM, Luben TJ, Zaganjor I, Rhoads A, Romitti PA, Conway KM, Langlois PH, Feldkamp ML, Nembhard WN, Reefhuis J, Yazdy MM, Lin AE, Desrosiers TA, Hoyt AT, Browne ML. Maternal Exposure to Tap Water Disinfection By-Products and Risk of Selected Congenital Heart Defects. Birth Defects Res. 2024 Sep; 116(9):e2391. PMID: 39212068.

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  • Published on 3/1/2024

    Fothergill A, Liberman RF, Nestoridi E, Mai CT, Yeung LF, Higgins C, Yazdy MM. Expanding the Massachusetts Birth Defects Monitoring Program to include additional pregnancy outcomes: Programmatic efforts and impacts on case ascertainment, 2012-2020. Birth Defects Res. 2024 Mar; 116(3):e2323. PMID: 38476117.

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  • Published on 12/4/2023

    Darling AM, Yazdy MM, García MH, Carmichael SL, Shaw GM, Nestoridi E. Preconception dietary glycemic index and risk for large-for-gestational age births. Nutrition. 2024 Mar; 119:112322. PMID: 38199030.

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  • Published on 9/29/2023

    Shephard HM, Manning SE, Nestoridi E, Darling AM, Brown CM, Hatch M, Ahnger-Pier K, Pagnano S, Mather D, Yazdy MM. Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Persons, by Disaggregated Race and Ethnicity - Massachusetts, May 2021-October 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2023 Sep 29; 72(39):1052-1056. PMID: 37768877.

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  • Published on 9/26/2023

    Pruitt Evans S, Ailes EC, Kramer MR, Shumate CJ, Reefhuis J, Insaf TZ, Yazdy MM, Carmichael SL, Romitti PA, Feldkamp ML, Neo DT, Nembhard WN, Shaw GM, Palmi E, Gilboa SM. Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects. Epidemiology. 2023 Nov 01; 34(6):774-785. PMID: 37757869.

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  • Published on 8/8/2023

    Petersen JM, Smith-Webb RS, Shaw GM, Carmichael SL, Desrosiers TA, Nestoridi E, Darling AM, Parker SE, Politis MD, Yazdy MM, Werler MM. Periconceptional intakes of methyl donors and other micronutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism may further reduce the risk of neural tube defects in offspring: a United States population-based case-control study of women meeting the folic acid recommendations. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Sep; 118(3):720-728. PMID: 37661108.

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  • Published on 7/11/2023

    Wong EC, Lupo PJ, Desrosiers TA, Nichols HB, Smith SM, Poole C, Canfield M, Shumate C, Chambers TM, Schraw JM, Nembhard WN, Yazdy MM, Nestoridi E, Janitz AE, Olshan AF. Associations between birth defects with neural crest cell origins and pediatric embryonal tumors. Cancer. 2023 Nov 15; 129(22):3595-3602. PMID: 37432072.

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  • Published on 2/28/2023

    Liberman RF, Heinke D, Lin AE, Nestoridi E, Jalali M, Markenson GR, Sekhavat S, Yazdy MM. Trends in Delayed Diagnosis of Critical Congenital Heart Defects in an Era of Enhanced Screening, 2004-2018. J Pediatr. 2023 Jun; 257:113366. PMID: 36858148.

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